Gate.



E. COWELL.

GATE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. Z6, 1910.

WITNESSES:

` ATTUHN E YS .'.padded to ease the/torce of impact of the4 Application filed hAugust 25, 1910. Serial No.

material lll. Revolubly mounted on the I trame l0 are similar ,adjusting rollers l5 provided at their top ends with handles 16.

To all whom 'it may concern:

.Be it known that l, EDWIN Cownm., a subject ot the King of Great Britain, and a resident of the city ot New York, borough g ot Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and i secured thereto is a perterably web shaped State of New York, have invented a new l baille 1'? having a l'leaible connection 18 beand l-lirnproved Gate, ot which the following tween the baille and the top of the frame to is a lul-, clear, and exact description. I holdthe baille approximately central in the rlthe invention relates to gates, and has l trame l0. for an object to provide a gate for stopping By Yoperating the rollers l5 to wind the runaways on bridges, roadways and the like, I ends of the baille on the rollers, a tension I l f I without injuring the runaway in the act of is provided in the battle and the same is then stopping the same. in the normal position indicated in Fig. `l.

For the purpose mentioned, use is made of `When a runaway strikes the battle the force a frame, preferably adapted to swing on' a ot the impact unwinds the baille from the post and having an extensible baille mounted rollers and the baille takes an extended posithereon, adjusting rollers being connected tion, thus gradually breaking the speed of with the baille to normally adjust the same the runaway and greatly decreasing the after the baille has been extended, and the shock. lWhen used on a bridge or roadway lower side of the frame being preferably the gate can be swung to one side and out ot the line of trailic. llVhen a runaway is sighted, however, the gate can be quickly swung into closed position to constitute a barrier in the roadway and the runaway can be easily stopped.

Although for the purpose of describing my device l have shown a particular construction, it will be understood that the scope of the invention is defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, l claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patentzi l. A gate comprising a frame mounted on a post; a plurality ot rollers revolubly mounted on the frame; and an extensible battle secured to the rollers and mounted therebetween. f

2. A gate comprising vert-ical and hori zontal members constituting a frame; rollers revolubly mounted on the horizontal members; an extensible baille secured to the said rollers; and a connection between the battle and one of the said horizontal members.

ln testimony whereby l 'have signed my name to this speciication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWlN CUl/VELL.

runaway againstthe gate.

ln most gates for stopping runaways the runaway is seriously injured, by striking the gate and the sudden stopping ot the runaway otten times results in fatal injury. With my gate the runaway is not abruptly brought to a stop, but is gradually stopped by means of the bathe, which when engaged by the runaway4 unwinds from lthe rollers. After the baille has been extended it can be immediately returned to normal position by operating the rollers to rewind the badle on the rollers.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings constituting a part of this specication, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in whichlitigare l is a perspective view ot my device in normal or operative position; Fig. is a sectional view taken on the line 2 2 ot Fig. l and showing the bae extended; Fig. .3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3-3 et Fig., l; and Fig. l is a fragmentary sectional view taken on the line #da of Referring more particularly to the drawings, l provide a trame l@ hingedly mounted on a post ll and adapted to abut against a post l2. The lower side i3 or the :trame is preferably padded with a suitable padding W'itnesses:

il?. fl. Hostnet, l PHILIP l). Rotarians.

lnterposed intermediate the rollers l5 and 

